Re: [boost] Boost debug facilities

From: David Sankel (camio_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-02 23:29:37

--- "Kevin S. Van Horn" <Kevin.VanHorn_at_[hidden]>
wrote:
> A few months ago there was some talk about checking
> preconditions.  In 
> some places in the Boost libraries, exceptions are
> thrown, and in others, 
> assert() or its equivalent is used.  I mentioned
> that you generally want 
> to core dump when you're debugging, but in many
> enterprise settings this 
> is not acceptable for production code, and it is
> preferable to throw an 
> exception (e.g., abort a single transaction).  What
> you really want is to 
> allow the user to choose which behavior you get.
>
> Comments?

Would an assertion ever be preferable to an exception
even with debugging?  If so, could someone give an
example?  Wouldn't the boost.test package with
cpp_main do something similar to this debugging
facility suggestion?

David J. Sankel
Electron Consulting

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